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Behind the curtain of international diversification: An agency theory perspective
2018
This paper dissects the antecedents of international diversification through the lens of the agency cost of free cash flow arguments. It explores whether the partial convergence of interests among managers, majority shareholders, and minority shareholders affects a firm's choice to diversify internationally. Using a sample panel of 60 Italian firms evaluated longitudinally from 2004 to 2014, the study tests whether a firm's international diversification is affected by its free cash flow (as the ultimate source of managerial discretion) and debt (as the main constraint to managerial discretion), especially in firm contexts that exacerbate agency problems. We find that the effects on internat…
Citizen Engagement and Entrepreneurship: Implications for Sustainable Tourism Development
2018
Research has not investigated the use of competitions-hackathons as a citizen engagement tool to motivate and activate citizen's engagement in entrepreneurship driving sustainable tourism development. This paper fills in this gap by using the SHARE Challenge as a case study. SHARE is a competition-based crowdsourcing project launched by the Government of South Australia aiming to engage citizens in sharing economy entrepreneurial ventures. The competition received 88 eligible ideas from different stakeholders, and the study conducted a content analyses of these ideas for investigating the profile of the citizens and the type of the sharing economy ideas that were inspired by the SHARE. Tour…
Challenges in Geographically Distributed Information System Development : A Case Study
2021
Geographically distributed information system development (ISD) projects are more and more common, especially among organisations operating in global markets. Distributed ISD yields potential competitive advantages by developing new products near the target markets, utilizing global labour markets, and exposing the organisation to innovations, ideas and new paradigms. However, distributed ISD also presents challenges and problems which organisations must take into consideration. The pivotal challenge is usually communication. People working on the same project in different locations find it difficult to communicate due to lack of formal and informal face-to-face communication, different wor…
Hard Competencies Satisfaction Levels for Software Engineers: A Unified Framework
2019
Software engineer’s/developer’s competency has long been established as a key pillar for the development of software. Nevertheless, the satisfaction levels derived from using a competency needs more investigation. The aim of this paper is to propose a framework for identifying hard competencies and their satisfaction levels. The paper contributes to the software engineering competency research by highlighting the satisfaction levels of hard competence for the benefit of the educators (academia), software engineers and users of software competence (practitioner). peerReviewed
Five insights from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
2020
The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2019 provides a rules-based synthesis of the available evidence on levels and trends in health outcomes, a diverse set of risk factors, and health system responses. GBD 2019 covered 204 countries and territories, as well as first administrative level disaggregations for 22 countries, from 1990 to 2019. Because GBD is highly standardised and comprehensive, spanning both fatal and non-fatal outcomes, and uses a mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive list of hierarchical disease and injury causes, the study provides a powerful basis for detailed and broad insights on global health trends and emerging challenges. GBD …
Electronic Supplementary Material from Post-copulatory sexual selection allows females to alleviate the fitness costs incurred when mating with senes…
2019
Supplemental material and methods, tables and figures for the article "Post-copulatory sexual selection allows females to alleviate the fitness costs incurred when mating with senescing males"
ABSENTEEISM AND THE IMPACT OF COST IN HOSPITALS
2012
Absenteeism has a significant impact on entities, being both profoundly negative and a measure of the ability of institutions to offer high quality products and services respecting the deadlines and budgets. As a chronic phenomenon, it affects the morale of team work, through the additional work that the latter must make to compensate for their colleagues and affects the quality of goods or provided services. Absent employees create an unfair overload to those who are present, because this constant miss disturbs the long-term environment; generates additional costs, delays and risks, in general reduces the productivity and efficiency of the organization.
Mer av det samme? En studie av tildelingspraksiser i Program for psykisk helse, Norges forskningsråd i perioden 1995–2015
2016
More of the same? A study of the funding practices of The Research Council of Norway’s Programs for Mental Health in the period 1995 to 2015 The objective of this paper is to examine the funding practices of The Research Council of Norway’s Programs for Mental Health during the time period from 1995 to 2015. The paper’s foci are on funded research groups and professions, main topics, and research questions. The empirical data consists of 138 project abstracts. The findings reveal a discrepancy between the national policies and funding practices during the program periods, where narrow knowledge development like biological, genetic, and neurological is given priority. Research focusing on co…
ASPECTS CONCERNING THE EXCISE DUTIES IN ROMANIA FOLLOWING THE ACCESSION TO THE EUROPEAN UNION
2012
The study is divided in three parts. In introduction the notion of duty is presented as indirect taxes and their contribution to state budget. In the second part are shown the evolution of excise duties in Romania during 2007-2011, and a case study on the evolution of excise duty on coffee. The conclusion of this study shows that excise duties as indirect taxes are an important source of tax revenue to Romania`s state budget. Novelties of this study, they are embodied in showing the evolution of excise 2007-2011 in Romania, and a concrete case study in the same period for an excisable product.
Pharmaceutical Marketing - Time for Change
2004
This paper reviews current marketing practices in the pharmaceutical sector, and their impact on consumer and doctor behaviour. It identifies negative impacts which include misleading advertising, disease mongering and escalating costs. It argues the need to move from industry self-regulation to an independently monitored code of practice for pharmaceutical marketing.